The information in this database is transcribed from manuscript inventories and lists<\/a> held in archives, libraries and museums.<\/p>\n The information has been organized into categories mostly derived from the source manuscripts but not always reproduced directly from them: the Record Number, Gender and Notes headings are additions.<\/p>\n <\/a>Some editing has also been necessary in order to make the material searchable across inventories. You should find here almost everything that appears in the original documents. But the categories selected by each inventory taker, and the allocation of information between them, vary widely. Some of the material has therefore been redistributed, especially in the Age, Occupation and Condition categories.<\/p>\n An example of inconsistent allocation of information is the inventory for Spring Plantation 1784, which has only three columns: Name, Occupation and Condition. But the type of information found in the latter two often overlaps: for example the Occupation column includes the entries \u2018in the Yaws\u2019 and \u2018laid up with the Yaws\u2019, while Condition entries include \u2018Man Boy\u2019, \u2018New Negro\u2019, \u2018Young Girl\u2019 and \u2018runaway.\u2019 These Condition entries can partly be explained by the fact that the inventory taker did not include a column for Age, which would have accommodated many of them. But the inclusion here of \u2018runaway\u2019 sheds light on the fundamental point of the inventory, which is not to produce an objective description of the enslaved, but to determine their use value as workers: that is to say, their exploitability. This applies even to much more rationally-organized inventories, as can be easily seen by correlating the entries in (among others) the Age and Condition columns with Value.<\/p>\n More detail about the principles observed in transcription can be found on the SEARCH<\/a> page, under EDITING NOTES.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Blue Mountain Plantation 1731, 1752, 1759, 1765, 1771, 1777 and Orange River 1740: Derbyshire County Archive, Matlock, Derbyshire, UK, Fitzherbert Papers.<\/p>\n York Plantation 1778: University of Exeter, UK, Gale-Morant Papers.<\/p>\n Spring Plantation 1784: Bristol Record Office, UK, Smyth Manuscripts.<\/p>\n Pleasant Hill and Phillipsfield Plantations 1784: National Library of Wales, UK, Slebech Papers.<\/p>\n Hope Plantation 1785 and 1788: Huntington Library, USA, Stowe-Brydges Papers.<\/p>\n Further information about the history and ownership of these plantations can be found in the Estates section of The Legacies of British Slave Ownership<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Manuscripts The information in this database is transcribed from manuscript inventories and lists held in archives, libraries and museums. The information has been organized into categories mostly derived from the source manuscripts but not always reproduced directly from them: the Record Number, Gender and Notes headings are additions. Some editing has also been necessary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicanslavenames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicanslavenames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicanslavenames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicanslavenames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicanslavenames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicanslavenames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicanslavenames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicanslavenames.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Inventories and Lists<\/h2>\n
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